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Macon

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Ma·con  (mkn)
A city of central Georgia southeast of Atlanta. Settled in the early 1820s, it is a processing, industrial, and educational center in an extensive farm area. Population: 93,700.
Macon [ˈmeɪkən]
n
(Placename) a city in the US, in central Georgia, on the Ocmulgee River. Pop.: 97 255 (2000)
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Noun1.Macon - a city in central Georgia to the southeast of Atlanta
Empire State of the South, Georgia, Peach State, GA - a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
2.Maconmacon - fine Burgundy wine usually white and dry
maconnais
vino, wine - fermented juice (of grapes especially)


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Now the successor of Pere Marteau had promised him a pate of pheasant instead of a pate of fowl, and Chambertin wine instead of Macon.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Most of them lived in Macon County, the county in which Tuskegee is situated, and of which it is the county-seat.
Up From Slavery by Washington, Booker T. View in context
Miss Jim Buck',1 outside Beaufort Harbor, with Fort Macon heavin' hot shot at our stern, an' a livin' gale atop of all.
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